TIME TRAVEL TAPESTRIES
So what was it like for the people 500, 300 or 200 years ago, that we see in tapestries? We stare at battle scenes, harvest scenes, scenes of leisure, elegant villas and chateaux and tranquil landscape scenes. Was life, captured in that wall tapestry, that different for them? Well, exclude the I-pod, computers, movies, cars and high speed travel, and what have you got? People and lives, not that dissimilar to ours captured in a hand woven tapestry.
The cycle of birth and death remains, and the everyday living in between the two, set out in a wall hanging tapestry is the same. All of life’ joys, loves, disappointments, eating, drinking, harvests, country excursions, and the things ordinary people do every day , magically captured in tapestries through the centuries for us to appreciate, is what binds us together through the centuries in what we call ‘humanity’.
Isn’t it comforting to know that our fellow man 200 or 500 years ago, beautifully captured in wall hanging tapestries faced the same difficulties that we do. Maybe less complicated, but he still had to pay the rent, feed his/her family, put clothing on his back , love his children , go to work every day and deal with the good and bad times. Well, ok, so he didn’t tweet on his I-pod, didn’t have to deal with the traffic jams, computers or cell phones. Apart from the technology, what has changed from the lives we see in tapestries, from our lives today?
Regardless of what we may think, it’s reassuring as well as beautiful to enjoy tapestries on our wall that speak to us of our connectedness through the centuries. History does repeat itself.